xi, 393 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Theory, themes, and the realities of gender in Latin America / Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens -- Part I: Women, work, and development. Selection from "Women, development, and anthropological facts and fictions" / by Eleanor Leacock ; Selection from "Approaches to understanding the position of women in the informal sector" / by Tamar Diana Wilson ; Economic restructuring and gender subordination / Helen I. Safa ; The urban family and poverty in Latin America / Mercedes González de la Rocha ; The myth of being "like a daughter" / Grace Esther Young ; Women in Mexico's popular movements: survival strategies against ecological and economic impoverishment / Lynn Stephen ; Caribbean transnationalism as a gendered process / Christine G.T. Ho -- Part II: Politics, policies, and the state. Selection from "Mobilizing women: revolution in the revolution" / by Norma Stoltz Chinchilla ; Selection from "Gender equality in the Salvadoran transition" / by Ilja A. Luciak ; Chilean women's organizations and their potential for change / Rosa M. Cañadell ; El Comité de Amas de Casa de Siglo XX: an organizational experience of Bolivian women / Moema Viezzer ; The mother of the Nicaraguans: Doña Violeta and the UNO's gender agenda / Karen Kampwirth ; Constructing and negotiating gender in women's police stations in Brazil / Sara Nelson ; Reading between the lines: women, the state, and rectification in Cuba / Sheryl L. Lutjens ; Seeking our own food: indigenous women's power and autonomy in San Pedro, Chenalhó, Chiapas (1980-1998) / Christine E. Eber -- Part III: Culture, history, and feminisms. Selection from "Women, class, and education in Mexico, 1880-1928" / by Mary K. Vaughan ; Selection from "Reclaiming voices: notes on a new female practice in journalism" / by Margaret Randall ; Selection from "If truth be told" / by Jan Rus ; Story without words: women and the creation of a Mestizo people in Guayaquil, 1820-1835 / Camilla Townsend ; Brazilian women in exile: the quest for an identity / Angela Xavier de Britto ; Remembering the dead: Latin American women's "testimonial" discourse / Nancy Saporta Sternbach ; Róger Sánchez's "Humor erótico" and the Semana Cómica: a sexual revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua? / David Kunzle ; Evita: the globalization of a national myth / Marta E. Savigliano

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